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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 35, Pages 15031-15036Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905580106
Keywords
autonomic; electrophysiology; emotion; fear; Pavlovian conditioning
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- state of California for medical research on alcohol and substance abuse
- University of California at San Francsico
- U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition [DAMD17-01-1-0739]
- National Institute of Mental Health Affective Science Predoctoral Training [T32MH020006]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [T32MH020006] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The amygdala is important for determining the emotional significance of environmental stimuli. However, the degree to which appetitive and aversive stimuli are processed by the same or different neuronal circuits within the amygdala remains unclear. Here we show that neuronal activity during the expression of classically conditioned appetitive and aversive emotional responses is more similar than expected by chance, despite the different sensory modalities of the eliciting stimuli. We also found that the activity of a large number of cells (>43%) was correlated with blood pressure, a measure of emotional arousal. Together, our results suggest that a substantial proportion of neuronal circuits within the amygdala can contribute to both appetitive and aversive emotional arousal.
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